In reality, this recipe should be called "Okra with tomatoes and red wine with sausage over rice," but when I request it every time I'm home from my mom, we just call it Okra and Sausage. The two of us (Okra and Sausage and I; but also my mom and I) have a long history together—the first (and only) time I can ever remember refusing a vegetable, it was the okra and tomato mixture in this dish my mom makes, but only because I loved the sausage so much that I didn't have any time or room to waste on okra, but now this dish is one of my all-time favorites and it's what I make when I'm missing home. It's also what I make when anyone dares to tell me that okra is slimy.

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